If you choose the powerful Los Angeles Dodgers To be the first team to win 50 games in this MLB season, you were not alone.
I was mistaken too.
If you choose Detroit TigerersCongrats! We are not sure that we believe you, but we will give you the benefit of doubt.
The Tigers team won their fiftieth match on Tuesday, a full day before Dodgers, and they arrived there thanks to the big contributions throughout the season of ACE Tariq ScopelRed hot Riley Green And the club Javier BaiseAmong many other things.
But are they really good as they played so far? Are they even the best team in the American League? Can they defeat Dodgers (or any team that comes out of the stained national league) in the world series?
We asked MLB experts Bradford Dolitel, Tim Keon, Jeff Basan and David Shinfield to treat all things before they are hosting Minnesota twins On “Sunday night the night of the baseball” (7 pm East time, ESPN and ESPN2).
Who is the biggest threat to a stroke in Al – Will the tigers take to overcome them in the face of Alcs?
Dolitel: Yanxiz still has the best list for the family and remains the favorite in the circle, even with the closure of rays and radiation in fasting on both Detroit and New York. This seems to be a season, by the time when we reach October, there will be no clear front hostility in Al. But if we are entering Tigers-Yankees Alcs, I love the possibility of exchange of Detroit, which we saw late last year. Max fried And Skubal eliminates each other, so it is really related to the number of favorable convergences that AJ Hinch can manipulate during a series of games between post -season crimes that are likely to be derived in time in time.
Keon: It is clear that Yanxiz – unless the rays. Tampa is deep and injured, and promotion employees is exactly what it seems always: consistent, obscene and consists of players who just militants can determine. It is really good – to a large extent the best team in the big league to play in a small stadium in the league.
Basan: New York Yanxiz remains. They got Harun judgeThey have become fried and Carlos Rodon For four beginnings, they have a better assortment of Detroit. Who wins in the theoretical match can depend on the extent of each team to improve the improvement in the deadline for trade. Suffice it to say, the tigers will not be traded Jack Fellowi this year.
Shunfield: I was also saying Yanxiz, but when I wrote this, I just saw Astros sweeping Philies, and grabbed them by playing one in three games. It was large like Skubal, Hunter Brown It was equally – if not better. (A couple of brown excavation in Alcss will be very fun.) Throwing at Framber Valdez You have two Actions plus one of the best bulls late in the game in Biz. Crime? Nothing is great. The team maker is clear: getting Yredan Alvarez Healthy and hit again.
Who is the biggest threat to the NL – and will the tigers take to overcome them in the World Championship match?
Dolitel: The evaders are the team that must be overcome, completely stopped. In many ways, its unequal beginnings of this season, caused by many monument injuries, represents the lowest level of possible results from Los Angeles. And the evaders are still there at the top of the disciplines. I can’t think about any good reason to choose against them in any competitive context 2025. In the Tigers-Dodgers World-which will somehow the first one ever-I can’t see the tigers register enough to overcome Los Angeles four times.
Keon: Elysees. No need to get cute here. Embolicians are the biggest threat to everything related to baseball. Although the match will be a lot of fun, full of all these contradictory overlap that makes a series of installation, let’s say La only in seven.
InLos Angeles Dodgers is still. It is more healthy Autani Again on the hill and still strike more runs of the house than anyone else in the National League. Will Smith It is a quieter. 300/400/. Freddy Freeman He does Freddy Freeman’s things. Andy pages All stars play baseball. until Max Monsey Hit now. Yes, the tone was a problem, but they have enough depth-a small periodic depth to use in trading-that they are obligated to find 13 of the weapons more than viable in October.
Shunfield: TIGERS-DODAGERS confrontations will be a 16 original classic match and always feel a little more privacy. Although who does not want to see a match in the 1945, 1935, 1908, or 1907 series between tigers and cubs? That 2-2 was divided, so we need a tie. But I go. Yes, the Dodgers team is still the team that must be overcome in NL – especially since we have seen Velez’s cases about the crime, the lack of depths in the depth of promotion and the lack of consistency of Mets. Elysees suffer from injuries to deal with them, but there is still time for Blake Senil and Tyler Glasno And every other person to return.
One game, season on the line, who do you want on the hill for your team: Tarik Skubal or any other ace in this sport?
Dolitel: I will go with Skubal with more hair Zak Wheelerwith Paul Skinis Correct in three hole. The way things go, by the end of the year, may be Yaqoub MourovskyBut I may advance to myself. However, Skubal implemented the dominance of its consistent season on this rare area where the great beginners reach where someone was surprised when someone registered them against them. He and Willer are associated with the largest score of 70 or better (18) games since the beginning of last season. Their teams are both 17-1 in those games. It is a currency click, but give me Skubal.
Keon: Skubal. There are many other candidates – Wheeler, Muqali, Jacob DejumAnd what about some love Logan Web? – But I am sure that a survey of the big league strikes will reveal Skubal because the person they want to face with everything is riding on the result.
InGive me Skubal. Even if others have experience and lineage, I will see things. There is no one – not even Slex – at Skubal now. No one walks. He hits everyone. It is the suppression of the house runs. If you can build a jug in the laboratory, it will look very similar to Skubal.
Shunfield: I am going with Wheeler, based on his post -season record: He has 2.18 afternoon on professional roles 70⅓ in October, and no one or one run in five of his 11th career was allowed. This is all since 2022, so it is not as if we have been looking at achievements a decade ago. It can be said that Wheeler carries better than ever, with a low -profession francini phrase and a high rate.
What is the biggest weakness in Detroit that can be exposed in October?
Dolitel: I think the elite at the October level may reveal an exaggeration. It is a solid assortment but the leading producers of the team – Green, Spencer Torcilesonand Zach McCainstryPaes, etc. – can accumulate on the wheel. If that happens, this is a team that does not work at all, and this lack of diversity is concerned with me.
Keon: The tigers are the individual team that does not have a flagrant weakness or a particularly flagrant strength. They have a lot of really good players but only a great one in Skubal. (We keep a second warm center for Riley Green.) A person who knows how to move in the post -season is run, and they have reached the confidence they gained with the wonderful qualifiers for the past season this season. So, choose any aspect of the game that can push them to the title, and any side may be their demise. Not, this does not answer the question.
InThe left side of Detroit does not exceed what one can consider the championship caliber. with Tiri Suene Get most bats in Shortstop, tigers run out as an alternative player on most days. The third rule is worse: the men of the third rule in Detroit hardly suffer from.
Shunfield: I do not completely sell their late-bull-bull ox. Without a doubt, It will jacket And a specialist change Tommy Canti They have done this task so far, but neither of them has a dominant strike rate for 2025 closer and overall, Detroit Bulben ranks only 25 in the strike rate. How will this be played in the post -season against a better squad?
While leaving one month until the commercial deadline, what is the step that the tigers should do to put themselves on the top?
Dolitel: Large tickets number 3 or better for starting or close-intention-the same things that all competitors want to add. The prominent step that really helps is to target a short process like ISIAH Kiner-FALEFAThe bats actually improve what Detroit obtained from the situation only in terms of raw production. But it also adds the communication capacity, and the threat of another stolen base and a plus glove. In order for the tigers to increase the chances of the title produced by their great start, they must think in terms of movements filling the multiple lists, and not a single large splash.
Keon: The prevailing wisdom to boost bulls and improve crime says at the third rule, which would put names like Ferbanks House and Nolan Arinado At the top of the list. But the tone and crime are both of the 10 best in almost every meaningful statistics, and I claim that there is a good condition on the equal footing that must be done for the tigers ’tigers in everything in the beginning menu. to provide Sandy Kantara A new environment Casey Meg. (Every word from this becomes a discussion if the 34 -year -old MLB return from the MLB MLB Detrich Enns It is actually the answer.)
In: Prepare Eugenio Suarez house. The third base man, who currently has 25 runs for the house and swings. Suarez’s strength will perfectly fit into the tigers collection and is strong enough to overcome the fence in Comrica Park, one of the largest stadiums in MLB.
Shunfield: This is the beauty of the tigers: they can go in any direction. Although the crime was, many of these men seem to be ripe from decline in the second half: Baez, MCKINSTRY, and perhaps Torkelson and Glyper Torres. This group is all the way at the production level 2024. If these men fade, the bats may be effective. But is one available? Arenado is definitely an effect and may not be circulated anyway. Perhaps Eugenio Suarez if DiamondBacks fades. But the most likely and easier answer: helping bulls.
